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	<title>BODY: Browser peculiarity/tip - BODY attributes with invalid BACKGROUND and 
    no BGCOLOR</title>
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.assert { color: green }
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<body background="tilepattern.gif" 
text="#0000cc" link="yellow" vlink="#ff0000">

<big><b><u>Assertion:</u></b></big>
<div class="assert">If the background image fails to download for any reason and 
no BGColor is specified it is common practice for browsers not to apply the other 
coloring attributes (this ensures readability with the default browser color schemes.)</div>
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<b>This document contains an invalid background URL reference, text=#0000cc (blue), 
link=yellow, vlink=#ff0000. No BGColor is specified.</b>
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filler text
<b><a href="http://www.yahoo.com/">Link text</a></b>
<b><a href="http://www.yahoobadoogle.com/">VLink text</a></b>
filler text
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